The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 63

Then the two envious brothers came to him and said, ‘O king! there is but one woman that is worthy of being your wife, and that is she who is the fairest in the whole world.’

Who acts: two envious brothers, one woman · What happens: come, say, be · To what, where: king, whole world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two envious brothers, one woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brothers	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 brothers	nummod
4	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brothers	amod
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 is	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 king	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 king	punct
13	O	o	INTJ	_	14 king	discourse
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 is	expl
17	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 fairest	cc
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 woman	nummod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fairest	nsubj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 worthy	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 worthy	cop
23	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	acl:relcl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 wife	case
25	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 wife	cop
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wife	nmod:poss
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 worthy	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fairest	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fairest	cc
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 fairest	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 fairest	cop
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fairest	nsubj
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 fairest	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 fairest	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fairest	det
36	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 is	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 world	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 world	det
39	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 world	amod
40	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fairest	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 is	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the two envious brothers	king		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the two envious brothers not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	be	present			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	one woman				worthy property	tree rules
5	is	gerund					of your wife	tree rules
6	is	present	one woman		the whole world		fair property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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